Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies

These easy chocolate chip cookies are sooo good you won't believe they have no added sugar! Chewy, crunchy, cakey or double chocolate - you can make any kind with dextrose instead of sugar.

The first version of easy chocolate chip cookies that I attempted came out as a cakey cookie that is rather heavenly. It is sweet but not too sweet. It is light and doesn't clog your teeth, which means you want to eat more than one! Sometimes the chewy cookies are so rich you can't handle more than one.

This recipe is so easy to throw together as it is all mixed on your electric mixer. I like to chill my cookie dough. For this recipe I chilled for about an hour. This wasn't necessarily by design, I had to stop making cookies and cook dinner for the kids instead! If you have time to chill the dough it will come out more consistently. Without chilling, the cookies are likely to spread more because the butter is already soft.

Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies -Cakey Sugar Free Recipe

1 cup and 2 tablespoons plain flour

1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda (baking soda)

1/2 teaspoon salt

125g unsalted butter, at room temperature

1/2 cup dextrose

1 tablespoon maple syrup

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 egg + 1 egg yolk

1 cup sugar free choc chips

Preheat your oven to 170 deg Celcius (325F)

In a medium mixing bowl combine sifted flour, soda and salt. Mix together until well blended.

Use an electric mixer to cream the butter for 1 minute, then add in the dextrose and cream for another 2 minutes.

Beat in the eggs and vanilla and maple syrup.

Gradually beat in the flour mixture until just combined, then add in the choc chips.

And then I wondered: What happens if I use rice malt syrup instead of glucose syrup? So I made a batch of those too. I used white choc chips in those so I could tell them apart.

You can get the recipes for each of these easy chocolate chip cookies variations on their respective pages soon, I promise.

What did I do with all those cookies? Many disappeared at the morning tea after church, some went down my own throat ...quality control! ...nom..nom..nom and I have frozen some to check how that works. Pop back here in future to find out if you can freeze these gorgeous cookies for later.

Do you want to know what difference it makes if you add more or less butter? What if you change the sugar content? Here's a wonderful Martha Stewart video explaining the differences when you bake with sugar: